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Transcript of cartoon: Title: What We Tell Fat People Panel 1 (A man with a TV for a head is pointing at a woman in an aqua shirt and a gray skirt. The woman, who is fat, looks sad.) TVHEAD: I’m popular culture, and I think you’re sometimes hilarious but mainly gross. Panel 2 (The same scene, but now the TV Man has been replaced by a balding guy wearing a jacket and necktie. The woman is unchanged, and still looks sad.) NECKTIE: I’m your workplace, and we all think you’re lazy and stupid. And we pay you less. Panel 3 (Now the woman, who has not moved and still looks sad, is being talked to by an Uncle Sam like figure. He has his arms crossed disapprovingly.) UNCLE SAM: I’m the government, and I think you’re a problem that needs to be fixed. Panel 4 (Now the sad woman is being spoken to by a lady wearing glasses and a black outfit, who is holding up a rolled-up newspaper.) GLASSES: I’m smart people in the newspaper, and I’m concerned you’re ruining our economy. Panel 5 (The sad woman is now being spoken to by a female doctor, with a white doctor’s coat and hair in a bun, holding a clipboard. The doctor’s cheery expression is undercut by her harsh words.) DOCTOR: I’m your doctor, and to tell you the truth you disgust me. Panel 6 (The sad woman, who still hasn’t moved, is now being faced by… herself. Her doppelganger looks angry.) DOPPELGANGER: I’m your self-image, and I wanna puke every time I see a mirror. Panel 7 (Another fat woman, with glasses and an orange sleeveless shirt, appears. She smiles and spreads her arms in a welcoming manner. The main character smiles back at the fat woman.) SECOND FAT WOMAN: Hi! I’m the fat acceptance movement, and I think you’re awesome! Panel 8 (Final panel. The second fat woman looks surprised, and the main character looks annoyed, as ALL the other characters from panels 1-6 loom at the main character, glaring.) TVMAN: Don’t listen to her! DOCTOR: She just wants to hurt you, you fat freak!

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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

Trump calls affordability crisis a 'hoax.' The data tells a different story As Democrats campaigning on affordability pick up wins, Trump's messaging about a strong economy is at odds with widespread voter sentiment that he's not doing enough to tackle rising costs.

As Democrats campaigning on affordability pick up wins, Trump's messaging about a strong economy is at odds with widespread voter sentiment that he's not doing enough to tackle rising costs. n.pr/4a4YQOt

Dog growling at tv

Jersey is losing his shit over Miss piggy 🤣🤣🤣

a fluffy black kitten lying in a cat bed covered in a faux-fur rug. her little front paws are crossed in a very ladylike fashion.

What if

the baby's

little

crossed paws

the word "explicit" is spelled correctly in a Microsoft Word document, but underlined in red as if it were spelled incorrectly and caught by the program's spellcheck

biggest fucking software company in the world

Damn good questioning here.

8-12% more in taxes… is less than what the vast majority of us pay in insurance premiums! Like JFC

We've all had experiences with insurance refusing to pay for a medication or care, even with an Rx or solid showing of need

Openly pining for dictatorship.

Bag Man: A Rachel Maddow podcast from MS NOW Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret Transcript – An Unsettling Secret Episode 1 Sources Supplemental Materials Episode 2: Crawling In Transcript – Crawling In Episode 2 Sources Supplemental Materials Epis...

I know about Agnew because Rachel Maddow did a podcast on it. www.ms.now/bag-man-rach...

Doing a thread showing some of the graves of Looney Tunes related people because I’m weird. First is Mel Blanc!

When the FBI was investigating VP Spiro Agnew for bribery etc WHILE Nixon was being investigated for Watergate etc, getting Agnew to resign was separate from Nixon.

The DOJ specifically offered a good plea deal to Agnew so he'd resign as VP, before the vote on impeaching Nixon.

Honestly it’s weird you have to pass legislation to overturn an EO

Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...

“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”

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Republicans gave $132 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% in 2027. With that money, we could have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people next year and still have $100 billion left over.

Republicans gave $132 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% in 2027.

With that money, we could have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people next year and still have $100 billion left over.

Release ALL THE FILES

including his healthcare ones

and pass some damn laws about transparency alongside the ones killing the Citizens United ruling please

Kinda wild that the organization the FBI considers the biggest domestic threat is ... largely imaginary.

Instead of bringing premiums down, Republicans put forward a bill that said, "What if we spend this same funding for ACA tax credits in a way that doesn’t lower premiums at all—but just leaves them sky high?"

More consequential than the two house seats, frankly, are the signals that this sends

1) Indiana GOP thinks they are better off not spreading their numbers thinner, even though these were *all* double digit Trump 2024 seats
2) They're no longer afraid to tell Trump to shove it

It’s Theranos all over again. Ppl who have no idea how the industry they want to “disrupt” runs, fleeced by snake oil peddlers with a sexy story.

Ppl do not want books written by AI. The problem with publishing isn’t a lack of volume. Nothing about that idea is good. But the 💰 ppl don’t know that.

So much of the hideous bullshit of modern business makes a lot more sense after you realize that the “customer“ for the products being peddled aren’t actual human beings that go “Oh, that looks good, I’ll buy that,” but the investors shoveling money into the burn pits of these go-nowhere companies.

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.

Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
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threatening violence either works or it makes people so fucking angry at you that they cannot be swayed from telling you to go directly to hell

good to see the latter carried the day today

The entire White House press corps is built around the premise that what the President and his spokespeople say is real-world news, not complete fantasy.

The premise has become fatally flawed.

Final vote was 31-19 against gerrymandered map. 21 Republicans joined 10 Dems in voting no

Did...did Indiana just call Trump's bluff?

Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."

Are environmental risks making Canada's doctor shortage worse? | The Narwhal The doctor shortage is a national problem. Worries about health-care risks in industrial and disaster-prone areas may be a factor

An interesting factor in health care provider shortages: Doctors (and presumably others) who don't want to live in polluted communities and put their health at risk while they work.

Administration fails again to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James A grand jury has refused to indict New York attorney general Letitia James, the second panel to refuse to do so, dealing a major setback to President Trump.

At some point if you’re the government, & you understand what doing justice means, you let this case go. If a grand jury won’t indict, a trial jury definitely won’t convict. But it’s hard to move on when the boss wants to get revenge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...